Development and Implementation of Selected Spiritual Disciplines for the Worship Team Leaders of Monte Vista Baptist Church

One of the foremost doxological problems of the twenty-first century is complacency in worship. Deficient spiritual development of the follower of Christ is rampant among Christians; many believers, suffering from this, have moved away from the purpose of man - to have a love relationship. This relationship has been replaced with a task-oriented spirit. No longer do we leave worship ready to make a difference for the Kingdom of God, but Christians come to complete a task and remove it from a long list of “to dos” in their busy world. Corporate worship has become habitual while lacking spiritual meaning. Worship Team Leaders at Monte Vista Baptist have not invested time into their own spiritual development so that worship leadership might overflow from a life full of the spirit. What can be done to bring awareness to this problem and possibly deepen the relationship between God and His children? Worship is a direct response to the spiritual maturity in the believer and as such ought to be given priority as private devotion, so that the worship leader provides passionate, overflowing leadership that is dependent upon the Spirit of God. A study guide that outlines the process of spiritual development through the disciplines of the Spirit would advantageous to the worship team leaders of Monte Vista Baptist. This thesis project intends to provide worship team leaders of Monte Vista Baptist the skills to create their own personal daily worship time to bring about spiritual transformation that will enhance their leadership and experience in corporate worship

Apparatus and method for gelling liquefied gasses

The present invention is a method and apparatus for gelling liquid propane and other liquefied gasses. The apparatus includes a temperature controlled churn mixer, vacuum pump, liquefied gas transfer tank, and means for measuring amount of material entering the mixer. The method uses gelling agents such as silicon dioxide, clay, carbon, or organic or inorganic polymers, as well as dopants such as titanium, aluminum, and boron powders. The apparatus and method are particularly useful for the production of high quality rocket fuels and propellants

Attitudes of nursing students at the University of Applied Health Sciences on nursing in Croatia

Sestrinstvo je danas priznata profesija koju nitko ne osporava. Moderno sestrinstvo favorizira edukaciju kao prioritet u profesionalnom životu medicinskih sestara. Više i visoko obrazovanje medicinskih sestara standard je u modernim državama. Uspješnost medicinske sestre ne ovisi samo o njezinoj humanosti i sposobnosti svladavanja suvremene tehnologije nego i o trajnoj edukaciji medicinskih sestara. Cilj ovoga istraživanja bio je istražiti kakvi su stavovi i mišljenja studenata svih godina preddiplomskog studija sestrinstva o sestrinstvu, identitetu profesije, ulozi i položaju u zdravstvenom timu i obrazovanju, odnosno promjenama i mogućnostima u obrazovanju medicinskih sestara i tehničara u Republici Hrvatskoj. U istraživanju je sudjelovao ukupno 281 sudionik sa svih godina preddiplomskog studija sestrinstva. Najveći broj ispitanih, njih 87,19% (N = 245) u dobi je od 19 do 22 godine, prema očekivanju, veći je broj ispitanih osoba ženskog spola, njih 91,46% (N = 257), dok je u istraživanju sudjelovalo samo 8,54% (N = 24) ispitanika muškog spola. Dobiveni rezultati upućuju na veliku zainteresiranost za jačanje sestrinstva kao profesije te napredak sestrinstva k svjetlijoj i boljoj budućnosti u Republici Hrvatskoj.Nursing is nowadays a recognized profession that no one disputes. Modern nursing favors education as a priority in the professional life of nurses. Post-secondary and higher education of nurses is a standard in modern states. The success of a nurse depends not only on her humaneness and the ability to master modern technology, but also on the continuing education of nurses. The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes and opinions nursing students of all three years of the undergraduate study have on nursing, identity of the profession, role and position in the health care team and education, and changes and possibilities in the education of nurses in the Republic of Croatia. A total of 281 respondents from all three years of the undergraduate nursing study participated in the study. The highest number of participants, 87.19% (N = 245), are 19 to 22 years old. As expected there is a higher number of female respondents, 91.46% (N = 257), while only 8.54% (N = 24) of the male respondents participated in the research. The obtained results show a great interest in strengthening nursing as a profession and the advancement of nursing towards a brighter and better future in the Republic of Croatia

Plastic Packaging Recycling Using Intelligent Separation Technologies for Materials

The sorting of plastic articles is currently achieved using near infrared spectroscopy but this cannot identify all material types. The objective of this work is to develop luminescent codes that can be printed onto plastic articles that identify both the material and also end-use in high speed sorting equipment.The authors are grateful to Innovate UK and the EPSRC (EP/N508974/1) for funding this progra

Radiation-induced gain degradation in lateral PNP BJTs with lightly and heavily doped emitters

Ionizing radiation may cause failures in ICs due to gain degradation of individual devices. The base current of irradiated bipolar devices increases with total dose, while the collector current remains relatively constant. This results in a decrease in the current gain. Lateral PNP (LPNP) transistors typically exhibit more degradation than vertical PNP devices at the same total dose, and have been blamed as the cause of early IC failures at low dose rates. It is important to understand the differences in total-dose response between devices with heavily- and lightly-doped emitters in order to compare different technologies and evaluate the applicability of proposed low-dose-rate hardness-assurance methods. This paper addresses these differences by comparing two different LPNP devices from the same process: one with a heavily-doped emitter and one with a lightly-doped emitter. Experimental results demonstrate that the lightly-doped devices are more sensitive to ionizing radiation and simulations illustrate that increased recombination on the emitter side of the junction is responsible for the higher sensitivity

The effects of emitter-tied field plates on lateral PNP ionizing radiation response

Radiation response comparisons of lateral PNP bipolar technologies reveal that device hardening may be achieved by extending the emitter contact over the active base. The emitter-tied field plate suppresses recombination of carriers with interface traps

Method for Mapping Bisulfite-treated Sequencing Reads To a Genome

Bisulfitno sekvenciranje metoda je za detekciju citozinskih modifikacija. Tretman DNA s bisulfitom pretvara citozin u uracil, zadržavajuću 5-metilcitozin nepromijenjen. Umnažanje DNA, koristeći lančanu reakciju polimeraze, rezultira pretvaranjem uracila u timin. Nakon toga DNA se sekvencira. S obzirom da se ne zna kojem lancu pripada pojedino očitanje, mapiranje očitanja koja su bisulfitno tretirana zahtjeva pristup koji uključuje pokretanje četiri procesa mapiranja istovremeno. Cilj ovog diplomskog rada bio je razviti metodu za mapi- ranje bisulfatno tretiranih sekvenci na referetni genom. Budući da je problematika mapiranja bisulfatno tertiranih sekvenci u suštini problematika mapiranja kratkih sekvenci, razvijeni alat u radu se oslanja na novo razvijeni alat za mapiranje Accel-Align. Bisulfitni maper razvijen za potrebe ovog diplomskog rada je javno dostupan na Githubu te je stavljen pod MIT licencu.Bisulfite sequencing is a method for the detection of cytosine methylations. Treatment of DNA with bisulfite converts cytosine to uracil while leaving 5-methylcytosine unchanged. Amplifying DNA material with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) leads to the conversion of uracil to thymine. Then, DNA material is sequenced. Since the reads’ strand is unknown in advance, mapping bisulfite-treated reads requires an approach that includes running four mapping processes simultaneously. Aim of this thesis was to develop a method for mapping bisulfite-treated reads to the reference genome. Since the problem of mapping bisulfite se- quences is essentially short read mapping problem, the developed tool in this paper relies on the newly developed mapper Accel-Align. Bisulfite mapper developed in this thesis is publicly available on Github and put under the MIT licence

Adventures in the Middle Kingdom: A Semester in New Zealand

Three colleagues from CRP and long time friends had a great time in New Zealand, taking classes at the University of Auckland and enjoying their time in a country of picturesque towns, beautiful landscape, temperate rain forests, giant ferns, cascading waterfalls, and the natural settings used in the Lord of the Rings

Modeling gain degradation in bipolar junction transistors due to ionizing radiation and hot-carrier stressing.

The roles of net positive oxide trapped charge and surface recombination velocity in producing excess base current in bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) are identified. Although the interaction of these two quantities is physically complex, simple approaches for estimating their magnitude from measured BJT characteristics are presented. The oxide charge is estimated using a transition voltage in the plot of excess base current versus emitter bias. Two approaches for quantifying the effects of surface recombination velocity are described. The first measures surface recombination directly using a gated diode, while the second estimates its effects using an intercept current that is easily obtained from the BJT itself. The results are compared to two-dimensional simulations and measurements made on test structures. The techniques are simple to implement and provide insight into the mechanisms and magnitudes of the radiation-induced damage in BJTs. A physically-based comparison between hot-carrier and ionizing radiation stress in BJTs is presented as well. Although both types of stress lead to qualitatively similar changes in the current gain of the device, the physical mechanisms responsible for the degradation are quite different. Implications for correlating and comparing hot-carrier-induced and ionizing-radiation-induced damage are discussed. Finally, the worst-case increase in base current is shown to be dose-rate independent. This fact allows the worst-case response of bipolar devices to be determined using convenient laboratory dose rates

Mechanisms of colistin resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from wastewater

Prema Svjetskoj zdravstvenoj organizaciji višestruko rezistentni izolati bakterije Acinetobacter baumannii najveća su prijetnja ljudskom zdravlju. Gubitak dostupnih antibiotika za liječenje infekcija uzrokovanih višestruko rezistentnim A. baumannii oživio je klinički interes za kolistin kao antibiotik posljednje linije obrane. Međutim, slučajevi kolistin-rezistentnih bakterija u bolnicama i otpadnim vodama već su zabilježeni. Otpadne vode pružaju bakterijama dobre uvjete za horizontalni prijenos gena te predstavljaju potencijalan put širenja gena rezistencije i rezistentnih izolata po cijelom ekosustavu. U ovome su radu prikupljeni podaci o mehanizmima rezistencije na kolistin u A. baumannii izoliranih iz otpadnih voda. U izolatima iz otpadnih voda pronađene su mutacije koje su karakteristične za kliničke izolate rezistentne na kolistin, a to su mutacije u pmrCAB operonu i u genima lpxA, lpxC i lpxD koje redom uzrokuju modifikaciju lipopolisaharida, odnosno potpuni gubitak lipopolisaharida vanjske membrane. Nadalje, u vodenom okolišu, premda ne u izolatima A. baumannii iz otpadnih voda, uočena je sveprisutnost plazmidnih mcr gena odgovornih za kolistinsku rezistenciju. Pretpostavlja se da rezistencija na kolistin nije glavna uloga tih gena, već oni služe za obranu bakterija od bakteriofaga i kationskih antimikrobnih peptida kralježnjaka i beskralježnjaka. Također, pronađeni su sojevi koji su vjerojatno postali kolistinrezistentni zbog razvoja unakrsne rezistencije pod utjecajem drugih pozitivno nabijenih onečišćivača iz okoliša.World Health Organization declared multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii as one of the greatest threats to human health. Continuous loss of effective antibiotics for therapies of multidrug-resistant A. baumannii has revived clinical interest in colistin as a last-line antibiotic. However, cases of colistinresistant bacteria have already been reported in hospitals and wastewaters. Wastewaters represent hotspots for horizontal gene transfer and a potential pathway for spreading resistant genes and isolates throughout the ecosystem. This thesis collected data on the mechanisms of A. baumannii colistin resistance isolated from wastewaters. Characteristic mutations found in colistin-resistant clinical isolates, include either modification or complete loss of lipopolysaccharides due to mutations in the pmrCAB operon and lpxA, lpxC and lpxD, respectively, were found in isolates from wastewaters. Furthermore, owning to a large presence of plasmid mcr genes observed in the aquatic environment, although not in A. baumannii isolates from wastewater, it’s believed that the main role of these genes isn’t resistance to colistin as it was previously assumed, hence they play a role in the bacterial defense system against bacteriophages and cationic antimicrobial peptides of vertebrates and invertebrates. Also, the development of cross-resistance to colistin, probably under the influence of other positively charged pollutants, was observed